Akbar Shah   GILGIT, July 7: Gilgit-Baltistan has been cut off from the world for the last two days due to major telecommunication breakdown. The glitch has disrupted work in government and private offices as well as civic life.  Although the Special Communication Organisation (SCO) had announced that it has started 3G and 4G cellular service in the region from …

Herald Report   The two climbers who had gone missing on Nanga Parbat, the most treacherous peak in Gilgit-Baltistan, are now presumed dead and the rescue operation has been called off, officials said Saturday. Alberto Zerain, a Spanish alpinist, and Mariano Galvan, an Argentinean climber, went missing last Friday while attempting to summit the 8,125-meter peak. “The search and rescue …

THERE are increasing reports of glacial lakes bursting in the mountainous regions of the north, causing widespread damage to people and property in the path of the devastating release of waters that follows such events. Recently, reports came from Haramosh, a village in the Hunza valley, that a glacial lake on the Rakaposhi mountain had burst and destroyed homes and …

 By Akbar Khan   Servile servants and toadies (bootlickers, apple-polishers, etc. — they have many dictionary-perfect names and incarnations) of dictators and powers-that-be are playing their usual games. One should neither be surprised nor shocked — it’s been the usual character of hundreds of such ‘beneficiaries’ who are ‘political orphans’ but are parachuted in by the Establishment and their bureaucratic …

Herald Report   KATHMANDU, June 29: Counting for the second phase of the Nepal local election has begun with Nepali Congress leading in 36 constituencies followed by Communist Party of Nepal-United Marxist-Leninist (CPN-UML) with 23 seats and Maoist Kendra 14 seats. The voting for the local government elections concluded peacefully on Wednesday in four provinces for the first time in …

By Noam Chomsky  May 25, 2017 DANIEL FALCONE: What do you make of the distressing lack of discussion on climate change and nuclear proliferation in the mainstream media? NOAM CHOMSKY: If you want to learn something about nuclear weapons and why these issues are not being reported, take a look at the March 1 issue of the Bulletin of the …

Islamabad, June 26: Two foreign climbers have gone missing on Nanga Parbat, tourism officials and media reports say. “Alberto Zerain, a Spanish alpinist, and Mariano Galvan, an Argentinian national, went missing while trying to climb Nanga Parbat,” Alpine Club of Pakistan spokesman told AFP. Muhammad Iqbal, the owner of Summit Karakorum, the tour operating company that had arranged the climb, …

Herald Report   SKARDU, June 26: Gilgit-Baltistan’s chief minister has constituted a committee to probe the torture of a student of Cadet College Skardu amid protests by political and student organisations demanding an impartial inquiry into the incident. Taking notice of the incident, CM Hafeezur Rehman has set up a two-member committee comprised of Baltistan Division’s Commissioner and DIG Police …

Apart from nearly 45,000 books, including magazines, Ahmed Salim has in his collection complete files of some newspapers too  Altaf Hussain Asad June 25, 2017  Ahmad Salim is a multi-dimensional person. He has written Punjabi verse as well as a novel; he has edited countless books in both English and Urdu on literature, politics, social sciences and many other topics. He …

PESHAWAR: Young bikers reveling Eid cause far more road accidents than anything else, a study by the health department reveals. The study conducted during the Eid holidays in 2016 revealed that 77 per cent of road accidents across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were caused by bikers, mostly by under-age motorcyclists driving recklessly or driving bikes unfit for roads. The districts of Buner …

Azam Baig Tajik PASSU, (Gojal) June, 25: The local police on Sunday afternoon arrested Prince Salman Khan, the youngest son of Gilgit-Baltistan Governor Mir Ghazanfar Ali Khan, and his gunman on charges of firing gunshots at a village in Gojal Tehsil of Hunza District, sources in the Gojal police told The High Asia Herald. The police registered a case against …

Kathmandu, June 24:  Nepal has been ranked 91st among 128 countries in the world in social progress. The Social Progress Index-2017 published by Social Progress Imperative, a non-profit organisation based in Washington, classifies Nepal as one of the ‘Lower Middle Social Progress’ countries with a score of 60.08 on a scale of 100 on SPI. Nepal has made marginal improvement …

ISLAMABAD: The government has so far released Rs5,993.036 million for various projects of Finance Division out of its total allocations of Rs10,159.222 million earmarked under the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) for the fiscal year 2016- 17. The released amount included Rs100 million provided for widening and carpeting of Booni-Buzand Torkhow Road out of its total allocations of Rs250 for …

In Gilgit Baltistan, work on one hundred megawatt power project of Karakarm University and 80 megawatt project at Phandar will be started soon. Chief Minister Gilgit Baltistan Hafiz Hafeez-ur-Rehman in a statement said a technical team of Chinese engineers has arrived in Gilgit to complete feasibility reports of projects. He said land has also been acquired for the special economic …

ISLAMABAD: Gilgit-Baltistan Tourism Development (GBTD) has issued special instructions for tourists coming to the territory. Due to persistent rains and the resultant flashfloods, landslides and roadblocks, the tourists should confirm the road situation before heading out lest their dream vacation becomes a nightmare. “Tourists should confirm the road situation and about weather conditions before the start of their journey and …